Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 02:16:16AM +0200, Roland Illig wrote:
> 
>>My choice of using pax was intentional, because I don't know if tar 
>>supports the -z flag, and gzip isn't in USE_TOOLS per default.
> 
> 
> gzip is installed as well as it is a dependency of pbulk.
> 
> We install our pax on all platforms but NetBSD, so yes -- tar has -z.
> Otherwise it should be removed from tools.${PLATFORM}.mk.

But didn't you want to get rid of pax?

Roland